What is a database?

Two main uses:

Storing information

Sorting information
 What kind of information could we
store in a database?
Patient information
Telephone numbers

Car registration plate owners

Business clients

Name and phone numbers of friends

Parents contact information for

children in a school
 Key words
Each persons information is separate
and that is called a record
e.g. Name Jo Bloggs
Address 33 Wood Lane, Haworth
Phone number 0474792927484
 What kind of things could we do
with these records?
A search this is called a query

Example 1 a child is ill at school

we need to find out if they have any
medical conditions quickly
Example 2 we need to find who
owns a car that has been caught
speeding on the motorway
How do you create a database?
Firstyou need to decide which fields
you want to use
Name is a field

Colour could also be field

Then habitat could be our last field

You could also have picture as a field

 Then what?
In softease database we can use the
wizard to create a database
We want to create a new database

Not based on another one

Then we can select our fields

Now we can add the information
This is the symbol for a new record
 Once all the records have been
added we can start a query
Clickthe button with a ?
Choose which field to search

And what you want to search for

 Finally
You can switch been two views:
Form and Report

What is the difference between

them?